In Japan, the number of automobiles has exceeded thirty million and the number of driver's license holders reached thirty-five million (approximately thirty-five percent of the total population) at the end of 1976. Automobile traffic in many cities has been increasing rapidly year by year. Automobiles and trucks, at present in Japan, perform the most important part of a means for transporting p...

As air traffic has been increasing in recent years, the environmental impact of aviation is more obvious, forcing governments to impose stringent regulations on emissions. In order meet these regulations, and reduce carbon footprint, research directed towards all-electric hybrid aircraft, where use cryogenic HTS machines cables proposed overall size aircraft. With system already place, explorin...

ALPNAP (Monitoring and Minimisation of Traffic-Induced Noise and Air Pollution Along Major Alpine Transport Routes) is a new project financed under the EU Interreg III B Alpine Space Programme. It will run from 2005-2007. A network of eleven institutions has been formed with DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics as the lead partner. The project aims at the integrated use of advanced science-base...